Talk:Climate variability and change/Archive 5

Under: Human Influences Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2014
Another human influence to global warming is the general public's misconception of the percentage of scientists that agree that humans are causing global warming. The reality is that 97% of scientists agree that humans are the cause, although the general public on average perceives a highly decreased percentage. There are real-world consequences to the consensus gap. If the general public would understand that climate scientists agree on human-caused global warming, they would be more likely to support policy to mitigate global warming. The consensus gap is directly linked to a lack of public support for climate action. This underscores the importance of clearly communicating the consensus and closing the consensus gap



http://www.wunderground.com/earth-day/2013/closing-the-climate-change-consensus-gap

Skrakov (talk) 13:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Opposed as this article is about the generic idea of climate change, which includes, for example, the PETM millions of years ago. We already linked to the main article for the contemporary warming (the article "global warming", and we discuss that there in brief, and then link to various sub articles such as Politics of global warming and Public opinion on global warming and Climate change denial.  Adding this social-science/public-policy influenced on the physical mechanics that influence the current climate change is..... too much.   And it sorta disses the dinosaurs, who's era is also part of this article's generic subject. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:40, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Semi protected edit requests are meant for non-controversial, simple edits. However, I do encourage further discussion about this proposed edit and it seems another editor is happy to engage in that discussion with you. Cannolis (talk) 14:09, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Denier section
''This was posted on my talk page after I left a note on another ed's talk page. I am moving here to document consensus for deletion of the section, at least at this article.'' NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 07:54, 28 October 2014 (UTC) At first I didn't understand your first message, but I realized after I reverted it again what you meant. I've been looking at financial data for climate change denial and noticed that there wasn't much info on that page so I added to the denier section. But again, I now see why you preferred to keep current events out of that page, so it's okay to take my edit out if you insist! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilyscarr (talk • contribs) 07:06, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Video
Maybe this is useful? Victor Grigas (talk) 07:42, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Not at this article. See Attribution_of_recent_climate_change NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:21, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Looking for a section or article on popular myths, misunderstandings or misinformation
Hi, I'd like to contribute to an article or section of an article on popular myths, misunderstandings or misinformation about climate change, I had assumed there would be a mention of it on this article, maybe I'm just looking for the wrong phrase? Thanks Mrjohncummings (talk) 10:05, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Precisely what myths, misunderstandings or misinformation do you have in mind? HiLo48 (talk) 10:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * HiLo48 asks a good question... on other hand, if you just have the general topic in mind, see Global warming and from there the various sub-articles. Don't just read the current threads in talk pages - study the talk page archives.  Links to the archives are usually in the yellow-orange section at top of each article talk page.  NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:44, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Climate Change Affects Everyone and Everything
Climate change affects everyone because temperatures are predicted to rise between two to six degrees Celsius (Cunningham, Mary Ann, and William P. Cunningham). As a result, climate change affects agriculture, wildlife, and the economy. To begin, warmer temperatures will affect agriculture by impacting crops and livestock. Climate change will reduce crop yields, and increase an animal's vulnerability to disease and reduce fertility (“Climate Impacts on Agriculture and Food Supply”). In addition, climate change will affect wildlife. By raising temperatures of habitats, animals that are intolerant to the heat will go extinct. Finally, the rising temperatures will affect the economy by increasing the amount of natural disasters. Having to repair the community after a natural disaster is financially draining. For instance, in 2011 alone, weather disasters cost the economy $53 billion in damage (“Extreme Weather: Impacts of Climate Change”). In conclusion, climate change affects everyone and everything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.211.43.86 (talk) 21:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Update spheres affected by climate change
The following section may require updating: "Internal forcing mechanisms Scientists generally define the five components of earth's climate system to include atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere (restricted to the surface soils, rocks, and sediments), and biosphere.[6]"

I would recommend updating this to read: "Internal forcing mechanisms Scientists generally define the five components of earth's climate system to include atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, regolith (the soils, rocks, and sediments), and biosphere.[6] However, recent studies have shown that these components extend into the solid Earth to include the lithosphere and asthenosphere (magma). "

The reason for replacing "lithosphere" with "regolith" is that until recently, the majority of the lithosphere was not recognised as being included in climate change responses. However, there are now multiple review papers and books describing movement of the magma in response to the mass shift associated with glacial and ice sheet melt, and with mass shifts due to changed movement of sediments. The review paper used as a reference cites most of these papers, but also brings together feedback mechanisms from multiple disciplines and includes discussion on all of the climate change affected spheres.

Clim8prim8 (talk) 21:31, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * If this "sticks" in the literature, then by all means... but that is yet to be known. IPCC's recent AR5 WG1 glossary has this entry, quoted in full "Climate system - The climate system is the highly complex system consisting of five major components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the lithosphere, and the biosphere, and the interactions between them. The climate system evolves in time under the influence of its own internal dynamics and because of external forcings such as volcanic eruptions, solar variations and anthropogenic forcings such as the changing composition of the atmosphere and land use change."

- IPCC AR5 WG1 Glossary - "climate system"


 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 22:00, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. The use of the word "lithosphere" although stated by the IPCC is not what they actually refer to. The lithosphere is far deeper than the processes assessed by the IPCC. The term "regiolith" refers to that component of the lithosphere that has been affected by erosion and the biosphere, and that is very shallow. As to the "stickiness" of this paper, the cited paper has only been available electronically since May 2014, but has already had over 44,000 downloads on ResearchGate in under 6 months, yet alone from other repositories. Clim8prim8 (talk) 23:21, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * "The use of the word "lithosphere" although stated by the IPCC is not what they actually refer to. " That may be, but we can't cite your own expert knowledge and the readership over 6 months isn't the determining factor for "stick" on this point. The real question is what do other scientists say when describing the climate system?  Will they adopt anything for that paper, or stick with "lithosphere".   For that matter, there's also research about how the thinning of the ice sheets is effecting earth's crust.  For example, increased isostatic rebound involves more than the regolith, does it not? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:54, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

I take your point. Your last comment that increased isostatic rebound involves more than the regolith is a major component of the paper suggested here. Anthropogenic climate change is causing rapid changes to ice loss and therefore isostatic rebound. This is very well documented. Clim8prim8 (talk) 03:37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2015
Please can you add to Further reading: Stacey, F.D. and Hodgkinson, J.H. (2013). The Earth as a Cradle for Life, The origin, evolution and future of the environment. World Scientific Press, Singapore, 301pp ISBN: 978-981-4508-32-2 http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8807

JHHodgkinson (talk) 05:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

❌ You appear to be trying to promote your own book - Arjayay (talk) 08:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2015
climate change is a significant change in climate

SuperDupie (talk) 18:51, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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Add Climate link
Could an internal link to Climate be added to the lead in whatever is the correct place? Thank you,Jcardazzi (talk) 17:59, 14 May 2015 (UTC)jcardazzi
 * Keep trying your own bold edits! When I started, I only learned by being reverted.  In any case, I linked that word in paragraph 2.  There is also a climate category in the liltte box on the right. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:14, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Arctic sea ice loss
This section is written as though its part of the GW article. Remember, this *isn't* the current-climate-change article William M. Connolley (talk) 21:23, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks for noticing; I had just assumed the deleted text belonged there. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:38, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Ocean currents and Jet streams
Arctic researchers reports and statements now suggest the following scenario: The Arctic Ocean will likely be essentially ice free for most of the month of Sept. That frigid Ocean will warm some due to sun exposure, so that next year one might expect two or three (best est 3) of ice free summer. Do the math (energy absorbed) and the Arctic Ocean will be ice free (year around) in maybe 5 years.

Weather patterns are primarily a function of ocean currents and the jet streams, the power of which in turn driven by the temperature difference between the poles and the more temperate latitudes. The rules of the game are changing. Farming will be severely impacted.

Not much to write, because none of it is in journal reviews. Here's the problem with climate models ... they missed balls of soot pollution on the ice surface absorbing solar radiation FAST [].32cllou (talk) 17:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * When you find an RS on this topic, try Climate change in the Arctic or Arctic sea ice. If you don't have any RS, then see WP:FORUM and WP:SOAP. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:15, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Statements and published reports from Arctic researchers affiliated with accredited universities, govt funded research data, and fairly straight forward math likely meets RS. You didn't read that article.  Black soot from fires.  Forest fires particularly, are significantly a function of climate change (natural or man influenced), and are a positive feedback factor for climate change.  Climate change, such as a change in the difference between temperatures in the Arctic circle and lower latitudes.  Additional facts should be here too, and thanks for the additional topic links.32cllou (talk) 19:36, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The information/research on soot and other particulat pollutants 32cllou mentioned are wholly reliably sourced, I have to agree with NewsAndEventsGuy suggestion about that. Just a quick look at the reference provided seems to me it's legitimate and useful. Damotclese (talk) 00:03, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * But not in this article, unless they are supporting generic text rather than text about the current episode. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 01:42, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Reading the article, I find much that requires, but lacks, source material. Much of what is properly here is dated!  2010 for ice loss, for example.  The article (s, as you note) should go to the current level tracking, thus including the crash in 2012, rebound in 2013 and 2014, and now tracking to a worse (than 2012) crash in 2015.32cllou (talk) 19:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

This article, climate change, is for talking about the abstract concept, even when the dinosaurs were around. For the specific warming trend of today see global warming. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:02, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Changes in mean vs. changes in spread
Would it help to have a focused section distinguishing between changes in mean (e.g., rising temperatures) vs. changes in spread (e.g., rising temperature standard deviation)? Is the physical evidence well separated that way? Thanks. Fgnievinski (talk) 20:51, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * During recent global warming, there have been few changes in large-scale temperature spreads. For most seasons / locations, the variance is consistent with unchanged.  The only pretty clear exception is that high Northern latitude spreads in late fall / winter have declined, probably as a result of declining snow fall.  Beyond that, I'm not sure what is really known about variance changes over longer time periods.  Dragons flight (talk) 21:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Controversy and editing
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Semi-protected edit request on 30 November 2015
Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming". CORRECTED: Certain human activities have also been hypothesized as having possible significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global warming". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gruntsean92 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 30 November 2015‎

It's much more than just a hypothesis as the note in the citation explains. SmartSE (talk) 13:47, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 December 2015
Ajay790505 (talk) 14:02, 7 December 2015 (UTC) Climate change is majorly caused by Human activity such as burning of fossil fuels by Cars, vehicles etc, coal based Power plants, factories and deforestation. More importantly, you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 14:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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Threshold Factor
The link to threshold factor goes to an unrelated topic. I'm not sure where it is supposed to be pointing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.101.12 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 10 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I fixed it by dropping the "s", its now not totally wrong, just useless... William M. Connolley (talk) 19:12, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Climate Change page is misleading and does not accurately reflect the current use of the term "Climate Change"
The wiki page for "Climate Change" takes a rather literal meaning of these two words together and talks about changing climate through time. In English, the term "climate change" refers to the recent warming of the planet at an accelerated rate - the concept originating when scientists began predicting that the climate would continue to warm as humans emitted more carbon dioxide into the air. Early well presented positions were in the public view in the 1980's (though the subject matter has a longer history - see Wikipedia page on History of Climate Change). The concept of looking at how climate changes over long periods of time is called "paleoclimatology", and there is a separate wiki page for "paleoclimatology". The discussions about plate tectonics, orbital variations, and solar output do not belong on the wiki-page that people are directed to for a discussion of climate change unless these topics discuss how current scientific evaluations show that these factors can not explain the warming that has been observed over the last 30 years. I suggest that people who search Wikipedia for "Climate Change" should be directed to the current "Global Warming" page which addresses the current use of the term "climate change" and not to a incomplete discussion of paleoclimatology that appears to be designed to present other reasons the climate can change over geologic time (not the general use of the term "climate change" in English usage). 9Questions (talk) 02:21, 7 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 9Questions (talk • contribs) 19:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


 * The term "climate change" (originally "climatic change") has been in use for decades to refer to changes in climate on a variety of timescales. This google ngram result shows the evolution well. If you look into the "climate change" results for 2008 say, you find a subset that refers to changes to climate in the geological past, showing that the term is not only used as an equivalent to "global warming". With the hatnote and lead section and further information elsewhere in the article I don't personally see the problem with the current set-up - I don't think that anyone is being misled. Mikenorton (talk) 11:26, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * should be directed to the current "Global Warming" page - but people already are. The article begins "For current and future climatological effects of human influences, see global warming. For the study of past climate change, see paleoclimatology. For temperatures on the longest time scales, see geologic temperature record."William M. Connolley (talk) 18:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Looks topical . . . dave souza, talk 19:34, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Edit
I would like to propose that the title of the article be change to "Climate Change Theory" as opposed to "Climate Change" The current title assumes a certain political position that impedes knowledge and the pursuit of useful information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helpingoutagain (talk • contribs) 15:33, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Please sign all your talk page messages with four tildes ( ~ ). Thanks.
 * Will probably not happen. By the way, article and section titles use sentence case, not all caps. - DVdm (talk) 15:42, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Actually, this article is primarily about the general phenomenon (which is an observed and undisputed fact even among most so-called climate change sceptics/deniers), not about the anthropogenic climate change theory. I fail to see how this assumes or implies a political position. Also, of course, not every scientific theory that has political implications assumes a political position - in fact, it is usually the other way round. The theory that the Earth is spherical has the politically relevant implication that you can get to China by sailing west from Spain, but it does not assume that position. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 15:53, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Proposed Edit on Terminology
I have done research on the terminology of global climate change, and I feel that I could contribute to the "terminology" section of this article. I propose to add more of an introduction to this section, stating that the terminology is important to understanding global climate change. I feel that it would make the section a bit clearer. Lucille Carnation (talk) 19:41, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Link request
This article is currently locked but could I suggest someone puts a link to Attribution of recent climate change right at the top of the page? Most people interested in climate change -- like me -- are mostly interested in the (contraversial) science of what it is caused by rather than than the (uncontraversial) change itself, and the human causes vs non-human cause theories. It took me ages to find that attribution page otherwise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.235.227 (talk) 15:22, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There is no problem here.  The very first sentence (italics in the  hatnote) points people to Global warming if they are interested in the current global warming.  Once there, the first sentence of second paragraph in our lead section has the text "human (anthropogenic) activities" wikilinked, and points to the article you were looking for.  Maybe it would take you less time to find what you want if you actually read the top level articles, or at least their LEADs, table of contents, and see alsos.  Note too any categories listed at the bottom of the page.  NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:45, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Terminology for human vs natural causes
There seems to be a wikipedia consensus that "climate change" refers to the general (and uncontraversial) changes in global temperature over millions of years, while "global warming" refers specificially to human-caused temperature changes over the last century. I was just wondering where this naming convention has come from, is it standard outside of wikipedia or was it set up here? I'm no expert in the field but I searched for "climate change" as that's what the media seem to use for the human-caused version, and I was a bit surprised to be referred to "global warming" which I vaguely though was a slightly outdated 1980s term ? (Wasn't there a "global cooling" scarce at one point too, and if so was that supposed to human-causes in the same way?)   Might it be better to have one new page called "human-caused climate change" or something ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.234.255 (talk) 10:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Answered at talk page for global warming article 12:52, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 October 2016
Taking into account of the anthropogenic heat released by humanity and related domestic animals and employing the conservative estimate of the heat released by world energy consumption, the total heat from humanity is about 19.7 TW [92,93]. This quantity is about 5 percent of the heat imbalance gained by the planet [92,93]. [92] Kaufui Vincent Wong, Yading Dai, Brian Paul, “Anthropogenic Heat Release Into the Environment”, ASME J.Energy Resour. Technol, Dec 2012, Vol 134, Issue 4, 041602 (5 pages). [93] Kaufui Vincent Wong, Climate Change, Momentum Press, NYC, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-1-60650-848-0.

Energy Tzar111 (talk) 18:43, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Besides that, this is the wrong article for details about the current warming episode. Instead, see Global warming NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:12, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

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Student from Global Climate Change class-Ohio State
Hello, my name is Brady Harris, a student from Ohio State. Below are my answers to two questions posed by my instructor.

Overall, this article was written very well and covers the topic of climate change very thoroughly. Where the article lacks a bit is it's one sided coverage of the physical evidence for human made global warming. Granted, there is a significantly greater body of evidence that points to humans contributing to global climate change, but this article never references a point of evidence against human caused climate change. By not sharing the complete picture, I believe this article is not completely neutral. In terms of the information, most of it is very current coming from sources dated in the past decade. One piece of information that could be updated is the figure at citation 70. This past year 2016, was actually warmer than 2015, meaning this chart could be updated to include the more significant piece of data.Bradycat130 (talk) 19:24, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Brady, thanks for your feedback. However, I think you need to read a little bit deeper. This article only has one small section on recent anthropogenic influences. If you want to see a discussion of current global warming, that is the article to see. Also check Attribution of recent climate change and Global warming controversy. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 23:33, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll add a bit... this article talks about the general concept which might be now, 2B years agom, when the next supereruption happens... just the idea in genearl, either cooling or warming.  At Stephen said, the main article about the current climate change is Global warming NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 00:27, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Global Climate Change- Sydney Speakman OSU
I have to agree that this is a very well written article. It provides many examples as to how the earth is reacting to changing climate as well as the forcings making it do so. However, this article is one-sided and doesn't show the opposite viewpoint that maybe climate change isn't caused by humans, but it is just a cycle this earth goes through? Two questions that I do have: 1) In the terminology section you talk about an event of climate occurring over 10 years or longer, but I thought that a "normal period" was considered to be 30 years? 2) Will you be adding any changes/updates to this article now knowing that 2016 was the hottest year on record? Syd speak (talk) 03:37, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * On the "viewpoint that maybe climate change isn't caused by humans, but it is just a cycle this earth goes through", my limited understanding is that it's both. The cycles are currently trending slightly downwards, but are being overwhelmed by human caused forcings, mostly up but also some down, the net of which is in line with the observed global warming. This is discussed in Attribution of recent climate change, but rather out of date as it still needs to incorporate the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report findings, so plenty of changes/updates to be done! . . dave souza, talk 06:48, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * @Syd, also this article is about the concept of climate change, and is equally applicable to PETM (warming ~55M years ago) and past glacial periods during earth's history, in addition to the current warming.  The top-level article for the current episode of warming is Global warming.   If your interest is re cause, I'll echo Dave's point to Attribution of recent climate change; see also Earth's energy budget. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Global Climate Change Critique - Malcolm Guy OSU
My name is Malcolm Guy. I am a student at The Ohio State University. I am critiquing this article for an assignment in my class on climate change.

The majority of the statements in the article are cited with appropriate factual articles. There are 99 sources cited in the article, which seems more than sufficient. The article seems fully relevant given the complex nature of climate change, with the associated articles on more specific aspects of climate change properly linked. This article does not discuss the possibility that climate change isn't caused by humans, however, doing so would be contrary to the science we have. Furthermore, doing so on this article would be inappropriate because there are other articles dedicated to the debate such as Global warming controversy. I have two questions. One, is it necessary to even briefly touch on the fact that this science is a highly political issue, and present evidence to make it more balanced? As I said earlier, I understand there are other articles devoted to doing so. Two, will we be adding any data showing that 2016 was the hottest year on record? I feel doing so would be a welcome addition to the article. MGUY10 (talk) 21:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC) Malcolm Guy


 * Maybe I'm dense, but the "External forcing mechanisms" subsection of the "Causes" section has 5 subsections, only the last of which deals with human influences. There has been and is plenty of climate change that is not caused by humans, and I think the article adequately cover that. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 23:10, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * MGuy
 * (A) Click and read this link... WP:HATNOTE
 * (B) Then read the hatnote at the top of this article.
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:12, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Global Climate Change Class - OSU - Chandler Adamaitis
I think this is a well-written article and it does a good job of giving an overview of the subject while providing links to many other subtopics if people want to read more in depth. However, some of the sources could be considered slightly outdated -- some dating back to 1972, 1989, etc. Although this information may still be factual, I'm sure there is more up-to-date information available that could be more relevant to the current status of climate change. Also, I think there should be more information on proxies considering all of our prehistoric climate information comes from proxies. Currently, I think the subtopic is underrepresented in the article and it does not do the best job of indicating how proxies are interpreted and how exactly the paleoclimate information is derived from them. Cjadamaitis (talk) 21:39, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * (A) Click and read this link... WP:HATNOTE
 * (B) Then read the hatnote at the top of this article.
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:11, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

OSU Article Critique-Andrew Peralta
My name is Andrew Peralta and I am currently a student at The Ohio State University, this critique is a class assignment.

This appears to be a very well composed article as evidence of its numerous sources from reliable researchers. However one thing that was distracting was, there was no mention of the denial of climate change. Perhaps to make this entry even stronger there could be a subsection in the "Human influences" section that addresses this. It could possibly go into detail about the both the scientific denial- or more appropriately its skepticism- and even address how politicized climate change has become leading to identity politics, and maybe even touch on the far that some politicians simply deny it because their campaign donations tell them too. Obviously it would have to be way less biased sounding than what I just said, but references to what coal companies contribute to certain politicians who are also deniers would certainly be a start. Furthermore, even though I disagree with many climate deniers, a future reader may need to be aware of both sides of the argument to be able to address them for arguments sake. Addressing the rebuttal and counterpoints is very important in climate science and should be here as well in order to maintain a stance of neutrality and reliability. Other than that, the information seems up to date and the sources as well seem up today the and reliable, just the fact that there is no section addressing skepticism leads one to believe that the sources themselves are not neutral. Peralta.21 (talk) 23:16, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

There is far more information on external causes than internal causes of climate change. It could go more in depth into how the carbon and water cycles affect climate change rather than just how past life affected it. It does not really relate albedo, evapotranspiration, cloud formation, and relation to internal causes rather just mentions them.

This page is semi-locked. Users editing must be a member and the account must be older than 4 days and they must have edited at least 10 times. This is in place to try to prevent edits that would not improve the article. This is good so that people trying to play a joke or be malicious aren't able to change the article. But this could be bad because some articles that are at full protection may not be updated as regularly.

Matricardi.3 (talk) 04:38, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * (A) Click and read this link... WP:HATNOTE
 * (B) Then read the hatnote at the top of this article.
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:10, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

OSU Web Critique of Climate Change-Andrew Bollenbacher
Hi my name is Andrew Bollenbacher and I am writing this section in order to complete part of my assignment for GEOG 3900. Overall, this is a great article when the reader is searching purely for the science behind global climate change, yet it neglects to delve into the political controversy associated with climate change. I was wondering why there is no section that explains how climate change and politics are intertwined. Also, there is a new evidence I came across that shows that February 2017 has the most CO2 in the atmosphere in the past 10 years; Tans and Keeling, 2017, Higher C02 levels in 2017 vs previous years, with a mean value of about 407 PPM. I think it would be good to keep a record of the increasing CO2 levels with a constantly updating graph like the one I linked above. HIGHTEE (talk) 05:00, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * (A) Click and read this link... WP:HATNOTE
 * (B) Then read the hatnote at the top of this article.
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 21:10, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Wiki individual assignment
1.) Does the climate change effect the re-productivity of the beetles and fishes causing the population to be altered? 2.) Does climate change increase/decrease pollen or just change the type of pollen found? Sasu21 (talk) 22:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)Sagul
 * 1.) You probably mean affect, not effect. Don't think "re-productivity" is right, better to say reproductive success, which does commonly relate to environmental conditions, and so will be affected by climate change.
 * 2.) Similarly, plants will respond to the environment in releasing pollen, the response will vary with species. dave souza, talk 22:53, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Geog 3900 Wikipedia Critique
The Climate Change Wikipedia page is locked. This is good because climate change is a very controversial subject. Since it is a topic that a lot of people probably look up, having it protected seems like the better option because a lot of people have strong biases that would incentivize them to make false claims on the page. Since the article is on climate change and not global warming, I was surprised to see that it did not include the viewpoint that humans do not have a significant effect on Climate Change. Upon looking at the sources, most seemed like scholarly articles, except for source #69, which was a New York Times article. Since it is not a scholarly article, it could be viewed as a biased source. Overall the article was well-written and informative with a few confusing aspects. Deliarandolph (talk) 05:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Two redirects to two different articles
I notice that a wikipedia search on two nearly identical terms lead to redirects to different articles:
 * Anthropogenic climate variability redirects to Climate change
 * Anthropogenic climate change redirects to Global warming

It seems that these two redirects should go to the same page; having them go to different pages is more confusing than informative. --there is also an article Human impact on the environment which is also the target of some redirects.

To try to make this a little clearer, I added a subheading "Anthropogenic Climate Change" under terminology, with a clear pointer to the Global warming article, the intent of this is to direct the people who are actually searching for that to be directed as quickly as possible to what they are interested in, so that this article can focus on the more general topic of climate change, anthropogenic or not. Skepticalgiraffe (talk) 15:08, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

e/c
 * A- you are edit warring by re-reverting the new section heading without any discussion.


 * "without any discussion"??? Sorry, but you have that precisely backwards. Quite obviously-- from the fact that you're reading it now-- I did put in a comment explaining what I did and why.  You, on the other hand, did a revert without discussion (it is only on your second revert that you read or replied to the discussion I started.)
 * To your credit you started this thread but you have to let people actually reply in order to have the "Discussion" part of the WP:BRD cycle.


 * Thanks.


 * B- Section heading hurts because we already steer people "as quickly as possible" to the global warming article via the italicized hatnote at the top of the article. The problem with the subheading that the main section is "Terminology".  By making a big bold heading about AGW some readers will inevitably not realize we're only talking vocabularly and they will expect a discussion about global warming itself right here.  That would backfire from your very worthy goal of helping people navigate.


 * That's why wikipedia implements a "main" tag at the beginning of a subsection.


 * C- Thanks for catching the erroneous "Anthropogenic climate variability" redir, which I have since sent to "global warming".
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Good. I think that's a better place to redirect it. That addresses some, but not all, of the problem.
 * The difficulty is that, while logically the phrase "climate change" seems like it should to refer to any source of climate change, since the mid 1980s this has been used as the main phrase to refer to anthropogenic climate change due to global warming, and the vast majority of people finding this article are will be looking for information on that.  It does make sense to have an article, this one, about all sources of climate change, but the article must be written with the understanding that almost all of the people who are reading it did not intend to get to this article, but were looking for global warming.    Skepticalgiraffe (talk) 16:46, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 29 June 2017
I would like to add the following sentence to the opening statement.

"Climate change, not to be mistaken by 'Global 'Warming', .......(continues opening statement here)..." Ejerb (talk) 14:23, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but this is already covered in the hatnote at the very top of the page and at the end of the first paragraph. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:56, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Orbital variation and solar variation...
...should obviously be combined into a single section. Orbital variation changes the distance from the Sun to Earth and the portions of the Earth exposed to the sun and the lengths of time of that exposure. All of that results in variation in the amount of the Sun's energy that reaches the Earth and the intensity and duration of that energy exposure. The two are completely interrelated. And because the amount of energy the Sun can and does radiate is at least partially dependent on how much energy is being absorbed by the planets and their moons vs. what is being reflected back by them toward the sun, even "solar variation" is somewhat dependent on orbital mechanics.

Simultaneously, "geothermal" energy on and in Earth are also related to and dependent on how much energy the Earth absorbs from the Sun. When the surface temperature of the Earth increases and various atmospheric changes take place as a result, geothermal energy radiating through and to the Earth's crust and natural "vents" increases or decreases as a result. Warm, moist air near the surface insulates the surface and reduces the radiation of geothermal heat into the atmosphere. Cool, dry air is a poorer insulator and more geothermal heat can radiate from the Earth's crust in areas with cooler air temperatures and lower humidity levels. In fact, since the primary principal of all thermodynamics is that heat moves from a warmer location to a colder location, geothermal activity and radiation is in part caused and encouraged by cold, dry air. Other factors such as the "soil" or lack thereof in areas where the "soil" is mainly or entirely rock or stone result in increased "geothermal activity" when combined with colder, drier air because stone and rock are better substances for heat storage and the slow release of heat than finer and/or "organic" soils.

Altitude plays another key role, but again it comes back to atmospheric condition changes as altitude/elevation increases and the reduced atmospheric shielding/diffusion of the sun's energy. The majority of very "geothermic" areas of Earth are found where ambient temperature and humidity levels are relatively low so that geothermal energy can radiate from the Earth most efficiently. The exception would seem to be the "Ring of Fire" of supposedly "high" volcanic activity", but volcanic activity is actually not the result of efficient geothermal conductivity to the atmosphere. It's precisely the opposite, and the majority of volcanic activity occurs where heat withing the Earth has difficulty radiating to and through the crust because of atmospheric conditions at the surface. Especially in areas where consistently warm ocean temperatures insulate the crust on the sea floor and prevent heat from radiating away.

Ultimately its pointless to try to separate out "causes" of "climate changes" on Earth since they're all the result of a basically endless variety of factors with only the Sun's energy being the CURRENT and CONTINUOUS source of energy present on and in the Earth. Earth itself is slowly cooling and slowing both in orbital and rotational speed and the only "internal heat source" is residual heat left over from the planet's initial formation/creation, whenever that occurred. And as it cools, it cools more quickly because as with any other cooling substance, the more it cools the less heat it contains and the less it has to lose.

Interestingly, all the "global warming/climate change" focus when it comes to "temperature data" has been on ATMOSPHERIC DATA rather than SOIL TEMPERATURE DATA. Of course as more and more surface area is developed, paved over and covered with buildings and other structures and bodies of water such as swimming pools, fountains, ponds, lakes and reservoirs, the ability of the Earth to radiate geothermal heat is reduced or at the very least the rate it can be radiated is reduced. Eventually the heat will make its way through artificial "insulation" on the surface but it will take a larger quantity of heat and a longer length of time to do so as first the "insulation" itself must be heated to a point where IT can radiate heat away and act as a "radiator". Artificial cooling such as refrigeration (for food, air-conditioning, cooling mechanical and electrical infrastructure, etc) adds to the heat load and atmospheric heat in those areas during the warm months not only due to cooling of air and objects but because of the increased humidity that results when refrigeration dehumidifies the refrigerated air.

But in areas where there are significant periods of "cold" temperatures and/or significant winds capable of blowing heat out over the "countryside" etc, the heat retention is attenuated somewhat. However, in more "temperate" areas, even where "average temperatures" don't require air-conditioning, the net result can be more severe because infrastructure in those areas typically has no air conditioning and heat and humidity accumulate in underground and above ground structures for long periods of time with little or no radiation or removal possible. The high and steadily increasing temperatures in the London subway system aren't so much the result of increased heat generation from braking, electrical components radiating heat etc from increased traffic as they are the result of increasing ground temperatures around the subway tunnels because the "temperate" climate of London doesn't permit radiation of geothermal AND artificial heat up through the ground and into the atmosphere.

The same holds true of the Earth itself. When solar activity is increased, the amount of energy reaching the Earth is increased and temperatures throughout the atmosphere and crust increase. Geothermal heat loss via radiation is reduced and heat accumulates until solar activity declines. For a period of time following such a decline, surface and atmospheric temperatures will CONTINUE to increase simply because geothermal heat radiation is a 24-7-365 process while heating due to solar radiation stops during the night time hours once the atmosphere "settles" and an "equlibrium" between atmospheric and surface temps is established. In areas with very little artificial "insulation", long periods of daylight part of the year and long periods of dark AND true "seasonal" climates rather than "temperate" climates and with soil/surface water and groundwater/atmospheric conditions very conducive to plant life and agriculture have very little "geothermal activity" such as hot springs, geysers, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.234.100.139 (talk) 07:23, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 30 August 2017
I think it would be good to include "climate change denial" in the "see also" section. This-is-name (talk) 19:44, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
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Chem bonds
I think adding the chemical bonds and the way chemicals impact climate change. Its important to show how little things can add up! (144.89.230.235 (talk) 16:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC))


 * I think the page should include the chemicals bonds that impact climate change and also where the chemical bonds come from! It's important to state the small things!(Harriscj (talk) 17:50, 26 September 2017 (UTC)).

Suggestion
On the topic of climate change I was thinking it might be a good idea to include criticisms about climate change or climate change deniers just so readers can understand the other viewpoint, or at least a link to the climate change denial wiki page. WingRiddenAngel (talk) 07:49, 16 October 2017 (UTC)


 * See global warming William M. Connolley (talk) 08:18, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Possible Edits
In the Dendroclimatology section, relating back to climate change as a whole would be useful. Right now, it only specifies what dendroclimatology is.

In the Arctic sea ice loss, the information regards rate of decline per decade. Adding information on yearly decline would show the variability of how sea ice may in fact increase, but still show the overall decline downward.

Also in the Arctic sea ice loss, the information given is not about climate change as a whole, but rather argues that climate change is happening rapidly. It appears a little biased, and the “further evidence for rapid climate change” part should be edited or removed.

Continuing in the Arctic sea ice loss, it comes from an article by NASA which is making the argument that climate change is occurring now. It is a biased article, which might have caused the slightly biased sounding information given, so the bias should be mentioned.

It may not be necessary, but in the Sea level change section, the articles used are biased to make an argument for rapid climate change today. Although the information given in the section seems properly unbiased, mentioning the bias in the sources may be worth mentioning. Cattroms (talk) 09:22, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Since you are doing a class assignment and there is no indication you plan to work on the text, I for one am going to treat the above suggestions as a general discussion and ignore them pursuant to the talk page guidelines. I'm not mad... welcome to Wiki and you did exactly what you were assigned to do in the course instructions.   I'm just saying if you want to participate and pursue these ideas for real, then by all means, say so!  Otherwise, if you are only here to complete the assignment and are WP:NOTHERE to improve the article, then congrats, your homework is done. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:29, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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Forest genetic resources Section, move out of evidence
This section provides little or no evidence so I propose to move it. Any ideas as to where? Raggz (talk) 16:40, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
 * A note: Please do not delete sources that you find to have broken links. Just because the link is currently unclickable does not render the source invalid or nonexistent. It just means we need to fix the link. Either fix the link yourself, or note that the link is broken. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 16:50, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Could we reduce archive frequency?
I came to this talk page and was surprised to find it empty. It took me a little while to find the archives. You really have to look for them carefully. How about we change the archive frequency? I find archiving after just 30 days is very fast. Could we change that to 3 months or so? EMsmile (talk) 00:37, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * As long as this talk page is not busy 90 days and minimum thread number=3 would work for me, however, we should allow people to manually archive the driveby noise that is frequently posted here before the 90 days and even when the thread count is three or less. The type of thing I'm talking about is when someone posts something and then does not particpate in followup, or when someone posts POV/FORUM type stuff or naked links to other sources but doesn't talk about them.   I'd rather see an empty page than the drive by soap box and spam type thing so often left here. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:39, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. I don't know how to change the archive frequency or to set up a manual archive. Any totally unsuitable comments on the talk page could also be directly deleted, rather than archiving them. EMsmile (talk) 13:58, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Impact on developing countries
It is often said that climate change effects will affect developing countries more than others, e.g. more droughts, floods (coupled with lower resiliance and infrastructure). I was surprised to see nothing about that in the article, or maybe I missed it? Could anyone please add some information about this? Thanks. EMsmile (talk) 00:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Wrong article You're reading the generic "climate change" article. This article applies equally well to 2018 as it does to the PETM millions of years ago.  This is about when climate changes (either warming or cooling).  What you're talking about is specifically related to the current climate change.  The top article in that series is Global warming, and then there are many sub articles, of which one of the higher-up ones in the tree is Effects of global warming.  Does that help? NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:36, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this. But I wonder if that matches up with how the term "climate change" is nowadays mostly used and understood. If I go to the article on global warming, the first thing I read is "Global warming, also referred to as climate change,". For me, I wouldn't have thought that the main article nowadays is "global warming". While technically correct, I think it is misleading because some parts of the world may not warm up at all (think Great Britain and the golf stream). I think in the popular press and media, the term "climate change" is more common now. Perhaps one could clarify this in the climate change article. Would it help to have a disambiguation page? Should we say that we have "climate change (man made)" and "climate change (not man made)". I see this sentence here in the article "In this sense, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term climate change has become synonymous with anthropogenic global warming." I also see some overlap between the two articles, e.g. section 2.2.5 on human influences. I guess it is really hard to delineate the two more clearly, but if it could be achieved, that would be great. I am probably not the only one who heads to the article on climate change when theoretically I should have gone to "global warming".... Note also how other Wikipedia articles link to this article. Many of them will be linking to climate change rather than linking to global warming, even though they should... (e.g. the article on developing countries. EMsmile (talk) 13:57, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Have been doing more reading on talk pages and found that similar discussions have taken place (sorry, you must be sick and tired of having to discuss the same things again and again...). But that issue about the first senctence "Global warming, also referred to as climate change," was brought up again just recently on the talk page of global warming... I might add a comment over there now.EMsmile (talk) 14:25, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2018
In the sub-section "solar output", a paragraph begins with the text "In an Aug 2011 Press Release ...". A suggestion is to correct that to "In an August 2011 press release ...". 140.198.167.182 (talk) 15:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
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Proposed moving of that quote about human influences
I had suggested to remove the long quote that is currently in the section on human influences but User:Vsmith reverted my edits. We have a main article about this topic called "global warming" which is linked to. This is where people should go to when they get to this section. For this reason, I don't think it is necessary to have this lengthy quote here but rather a short intro about "human influences" aka global warming and if people want to know more about it they should go there. Apart from that, take a look at that quote and you'll see that it has a low readability score, with long and complex sentences. Not easy to understand for laypersons. As the hatnote says, this article is not primarily about the recent man-made changes in climate anyhow. - See also what I put about this on the talk page of global warming. EMsmile (talk) 14:46, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The quote is relevant and if readers find the "low readability" bit troublesome they are welcome to A: learn a bit or b: skip it and roll on. Vsmith (talk) 15:29, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * In my opinion the quote goes into too much detail, given that a) we have a sub-article on this topic that people should turn to and b) this article is about long term climate change and not those climate changes that are man-made. You have not addressed these two arguments of mine which I already raised previously. You only repeated that it is "relevant" (in your opinion). There could be many other "relevant" quotes too, that is not the point here. About the readability, I do think this is important in general for all Wikipedia articles and think many Wikipedians have in the past paid far too little attention to improving readability of articles. Think of people for whom English is not the first language or people without a university degree. Wikipedia is about public education, and just saying "people should learn or skip the text" is a bit of an arrogant attitude in my opinion. - Anyway, let's hear also from others who are watching the page if they think the quote must stay or can go, e.g. User:NewsAndEventsGuy EMsmile (talk) 15:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Compared to how busy I am, its a low priority and I don't care that much either way.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:25, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * How is it not relevant? It is about climate change and the current changing climate is real. The quote is a rather concise statement of the current situation and a lead in to the linked article. This is not simple wikipedia and readers can handle a big word or two. No, Wikipedia is not about "public education" - it is about providing information - and that quote does just that in clear language. Vsmith (talk) 22:59, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You find that quote a concise statement? I think there are better ones - to be found in the article on global warming which is where it belongs, not here. Anyhow, We seem to not be able to reach a consensus. May I ask any of the other people who are watching this page for their opinion? I am of the opinion that whenever there is a separate article on a topic, see the "Main|Global warming" note, then the text needs to be very short and only provide a quick overview but no unnecessary detail. This quote is unnecessary detailed at this point. And of course current climate change is real, you don't need to covince me of that. And Wikipedia is also about public education; we are providing encyclopedic information so that people can learn and understand stuff. Anyway, if nobody else has an opinion on this quote that they are willing to share then I give up at this point. EMsmile (talk) 14:45, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The goal should be to entice people to go to Global warming. Vsmith, you advocate for the quote saying it is "a lead in to the linked article".   .... Bbut wait.... the other article already a WP:Lead section.  Are you saying we should start using WP:Lead ins to the Lead Section of linked articles?  In my opinion, our writing has a lot more oompf if we make effective use of the article tree structure, and a vigorous discipline favoring brevity and flow.   And I know, I said I don't care much either way and I don't.  I just added a followup to express appreciation for EMsmile's good faith efforts to improve this article grouping. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:12, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Compromise idea: I have removed the first two sentences of the quote and made it start with the sentence that is at the core of this quote. As far as I am concerned, we might also delete the last sentence of the quote but for now I have left it here. Good? EMsmile (talk) 05:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Aerosols and climate change
A piece to consider for inclusion as a reference: --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:52, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 April 2018
Would like to add a new discovery at the end of section of "Causes"
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Unclear what changes need to be made. If it's the section below, that has already been declined. ToThAc (talk) 17:37, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 May 2018
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Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Global warming which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 13:44, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, please contribute there. In short: the proposal on the table would mean that the title of this article would have to be changed, so that the existing article called global warming could be renamed to "climate change". EMsmile (talk) 13:21, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Swap order: external forcings first, then internal forcings
I would like to swap the order and start with the external forcings, then the internal forcings. Does anyone object? I don't see why internal forcings would need to be listed first. If we swapped the order then this would bring the human-induced external forcings to appear earlier in the article, which I think is important. Why? Because I think the majority of people these days would come to an article on "climate change" looking to the topic of the human-induced climate change. Or is there a reason why the internal forcings need to come first? EMsmile (talk) 14:31, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose; You have clearly stated a desire that this articles title "climate change" be assigned the scope of the human-caused phenomena, but as we have argued endlessly at Talk:Global warming this articles scope is currently assigned to the overall concepts of climate change which includes but is certainly not limited to humans. This article's current scope is not tied to a time period of earths history either.   So the move you want to make is to bubble up the importance of contemporary anthropogenic factors before we resolve the appropriate scope of these articles in the other discussion.  Further, I am opposed to shuffling people instantly into a focus on the human side, because the reader can't really undersrtand this issue without understanding the five parts of the Climate system and how they interact along with other external forcings.  All of that is necessary context for understanding what people are doing.   So I also kinda view this change as encouraging readers takie a shortcut and just blip over this all important background & context. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:45, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not a "shortcut", it is helping people find what they are looking for more easily. The way "climate change" is used in the media and science today is mainly to refer to the human-made climate change. I think a lot of people look for that first and if they want to know more then they can go deeper into the general climate science behind it. We are writing here for the interested layperson not for other scientists. Anyway, is there a reason why the internal forcings must be described first? Are they important for the logical flow? If so, then fine. I thought they are on an equal basis to the external ones, in which case the external ones might as well come first. EMsmile (talk) 08:47, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I know this is in good faith here, but it is sort of thin ice, in my opinion. Please review
 * For the best intentions, which this is, see the first bullet point at WP:TPG and
 * For what people sometimes try when they aren't working together WP:FORUMSHOPPING
 * For others arriving here unawares... the underlying conceptual consensus has to do with "global warming" vs "climate change" and is currently being debated at Talk:Global_warming. You are welcome to join the discussion over there.
 * NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:52, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Not my intention to do anything "dodgy" but I see your point. Will tread more carefully. Have just made a suggestion to use the TOC limit 3 which I think would be better for this kind of overview article. What do you and others think about that? EMsmile (talk) 14:45, 7 June 2018 (UTC) See also here. EMsmile (talk) 02:00, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Aren't we missing some sections of the article?
So if this article is about climate change in any time frames, i.e. long ones AND more recent ones, then why do we have no information at all about topics such as: "Effects of climate change", responses and discourse? Shouldn't we have that at least very briefly and then refer across to "global warming" or the other suitable sub-articles? I think we have to decide: (A) is this article about all types of climate change (i.e. ALSO about the human-induced part)? Or (B) is it only about the non-human induced part. I think (A) is correct. If (A) is correct then we need to very briefly touch on those things relating to the human-made climate change, namely, effects, responses and discourse. Just really briefly and then refer to the other sub-articles. Do you agree? EMsmile (talk) 14:51, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * P.S. is it OK that I add that here or should I rather put this on the talk page of global warming, into our existing discussion? I assume the people watching both pages are quite similar, and it really is about this article here.EMsmile (talk) 15:00, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Seems like yet another bite of the apple despite feedback offered in another thread on this page, which I offered earlier today in this diff. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 22:25, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I thought about it, and that's why I put the P.S. there (just above), but I concluded that if we are discussing details of the existing article on "climate change" then it ought to go onto the talk page of climate change. After all, these are two different articles at this stage and perhaps forever. So why not discuss the issue of potentially missing sections here? Also, if the move proposal is rejected, then we anyway have to come back to this talk page to discuss possible improvements of this article. By the way, the quality class of this article is only B, so it really does need improvement. EMsmile (talk) 01:41, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * One can only have a meaingful discussion of "the issue of potentially missing sections" once everyone is on the same page about the scope of the article, and you seem to be trying to change that in the other thread.  I didn't say "no" I just said "not yet".  Going on a trip it makes little sense to ask "Gee, I think I forgot something" if you don't know if you're going to spend a week at Broadway or a week deep sea fishing.  First come to peace with the article title/scope issues then ask questions of this sort. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 09:28, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that my title change proposal for global warming will be unsuccessful, as many people are aruging against it and only few have supported it so far. However, nearly everyone in the discussion has pointed out that climate change is the overarching article, and that it includes climate change at ANY time and for ANY reason. Therefore, I thought it was reasonable to return to climate change and see what needs to be done to make it into a better article. But I'll try to be more patient and hang back for a while.EMsmile (talk) 11:21, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * You and I were the only vigorous debaters in favor of either (or both) articles being renamed. There was at least one (maybe more) "support" not-votes.  If those other supporters agree, is it alright with you for the rename discussion at Talk global warming be closed and the rename tags removed?  I like tending to such things as a matter of housekeeping and documenting consensus, so we don't go back and forth. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Why the rush? The tag has only been up since 3 June, so barely a week. If someone was on holidays they would miss out. Couldn't we leave it up for another couple of weeks and see if new people join the debate? (you had originally suggested an RfC but changed your mind on that; would that not still be useful?) Or is there a guideline that such a move tag needs to be taken down fast? And I don't think concensus has been reached. Overruled, maybe, but I think the main arguments for changing have not really been addressed, i.e. as per WP:COMMONAME. Also compromise ideas were not really discussed by those opposing it. The opposition mainly stems from a) let's just keep the status quo, b) climate change and global warming both exist as terms and as wikipedia articles, c) the term global warming is (also) used in the literature and sources, and d) it would be too messy to change. A compromise idea in my opinion would be to rename it to global warming and climate change and to broaden climate change to make it into a true overview article (like top of the tree), i.e. including all information necessary to lead people off in the right direction to find out more about a) currenty climate change as well as b) past climate change. (would it be useful if I put the same content on the talk page of global warming or even move it to there?)  EMsmile (talk) 12:30, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Why the rush? Seems like you want to edit under one big picture framework while the discussion of changing the big picture (which you started) is still underway.  I'm opposed to the editing you want to do in this thread at this time though it may make sense later.  In other words, it makes little sense and is even a bit disrespectful to your dinner guests, if you add lots of curry while still asking your guests whether they want Indian or Italian for supper. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:12, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Curry? For goodness sake don't mention Curry in this context, as Major Bloodnok might have said. . . dave souza, talk 15:48, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * oh my.... at myself I say NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:20, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

OK, I'll wait then. Do you have any suggestions on how to progress/revitalise the discussion at the global warming talk page? Would an RfC make sense? If so, where? To make it more palatable I would probably put Alternative D forward in the RfC question, as otherwise the first reaction might be "you cannot move "global warming" to "climate change" because that page exists already". EMsmile (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've already imparted all my words of wisdom. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I see someone has already closed the move discussion now. People have no patience. Whatever. So, can I now start discussing whether this article here needs the additional sections like I have proposed above? EMsmile (talk) 03:01, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

sentence move and GW bolding
Re this edit which I reverted... in the Manual of Style, bold might be used for alternative names, see WP:BOLDSYN and for links that redirect back to the same article, see WP:BOLDLEAD. The other thing is moving the sentence at all. See WP:LEADPARAGRAPH. We are supposed to describe the subject and you are already trying to do a backdoor redirect from this article so people read the text you want them to read when they search "climate change" but is currently located at Global warming. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:51, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * the first sentence of the global warming article says "Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.". So why can the first or second sentence of this article not also say something equivalent like what I had proposed? If you don't like the bolding, we can remove that, but in terms of the ordering, I can't see anything wrong with moving this information forward. Just like on the global warming article we tell people upfront that climate change is a synonymous term, so we could do the same at the climate change article? Why not? Is it mainly the bolding that you didn't like or the ordering of the sentences?EMsmile (talk) 11:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Regrettably, in common usage the words are synonyms in one context but not in the other.  Think pizza.  If you are talking about the general concept of pizza, the only phrase in common usages is "climate change".  If, however, you are talking about the specific slice of pizza now on the table, then in common usage the words are indeed synonyms, and so the other article starts Global warming, also known as climate change... NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:30, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Improving readability
This article has a low readability score of only 37 (see here). I plan to work on improving the readability score over the coming week. This should be not controversial. EMsmile (talk) 12:02, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Go for Featured Article status! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

“Climate change” and “global warming” have distinct meanings
The lead statement "More and more, the term "climate change" is nowadays used in the media and policy documents to refer specifically to anthropogenic climate change, especially in the context of environmental policy." isn't supported by the inline references: at best, it's original research. Historical context is covered in, but more recently makes the point that " “Climate change” and “global warming” are often used interchangeably but have distinct meanings", and climate change includes global warming. Perhaps better, – "What’s the difference between climate change and global warming?" "“Global warming” refers to the long-term warming of the planet. Global temperature shows a well-documented rise since the early 20th century and most notably since the late 1970s. Worldwide, since 1880 the average surface temperature has risen about 1 °C (about 2 °F), relative to the mid-20th-century baseline (of 1951-1980). This is on top of about an additional 0.15 °C of warming from between 1750 and 1880.

“Climate change” encompasses global warming, but refers to the broader range of changes that are happening to our planet. These include rising sea levels, shrinking mountain glaciers, accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic, and shifts in flower/plant blooming times. These are all consequences of the warming, which is caused mainly by people burning fossil fuels and putting out heat-trapping gases into the air. The terms “global warming” and “climate change” are sometimes used interchangeably, but strictly they refer to slightly different things."

Thus the terms have overlapping meanings when discussing climate change post 1880, which is predominately global warming. It doesn't cover the point that climate change includes paleoclimate, with cooling as well as warming, and also note that [http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter05_FINAL.pdf AR5 WG! Chapter 5] p. 355 discusses "the mean rate of global warming" during the last deglaciation (due to CO2 increases). So it's a different topic, more nuanced definition needed in the lead about usage related to context. . . dave souza, talk 13:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for this. However, the first sentence of "global warming" ends with "and its related effects". This means, according to that first sentence, the global warming article includes all the other things that you mentioned, too, i.e. "rising sea levels, shrinking mountain glaciers, accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic, and shifts in flower/plant blooming times". That's where the distinction between "global warming" and "climate change" gets so blurred (even if in theory it's easy: one just relating to temperature, the other relating to everything and at any time. You can see the problem with the blurring also in the climate change article where one section is called "physical evidence", and pretty much the same information is given in the section of "effects" in the global warming article. - In any case, I think the current climate change article needs to make a reference to the important concepts of responses, i.e. things like climate adaptation, climate mitigation. Only very briefly, just to point people to the right sub-articles and to put things into concept. The climate change article should really be at the top of the tree of sub-articles, but at the moment it does a poor job of that. It stops all of a sudden after "phyiscal evidence" as if nothing else needed saying. We need sections with standard headings such as History, Society and culture, Like I said on the global warming talk page, this template might help us to think through what's missing: EMsmile (talk) 15:03, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

EMsmile (talk) 15:03, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, and I'll agree it makes sense for “Climate change” to be a top level article, which encompasses global warming. For structure reasons, it also makes sense to include the various effects and implications of global warming in that sub-article, as well as having Summary style coverage of this as part of coverage of effects in the climate change article – which would in principle cover adaptation to glaciation, whereas the global warming article coverage is focussed on adaptation to anthropogenic warming climate. That way our articles can each cover relevant topics while relating appropriately to the other article. . dave souza, talk 16:21, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * dave souza, should we have a go at it by starting a structure/layout on your or my sandbox? I am thinking the existing sections of the article are probably OK, but after the last one we need to add some additional ones. All in summary style, since all the other sub-articles already exist. EMsmile (talk) 07:23, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, I'd be inclined to connect notes and references together, so that we only have one section called "References", not Notes and then References. OK? EMsmile (talk) 07:28, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * By the way, it is interesting to see how the other language Wikipedias have dealt with this issue. If you speak another language, do take a look as we can learn from each one. I had a look at the German, Dutch and French versions (as I have an understanding of those languages). They all have the two different articles but what I find interesting is how the deal with the human-made part in the overal climate change article, and how and where they link across, and what they include in the overarching article and what they leave out. EMsmile (talk) 07:41, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

External links section is too long
I plan to cull down the external links section. When the list is too long it is no longer helpful. I plan to cull it down. Any opinions on that? Another option would be to give it subheadings (like it's done at global warming) but I am not a big fan of long lists, with or without subheadings. EMsmile (talk) 07:32, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * in the absence of any objections, I have removed some of the less important external links now. EMsmile (talk) 02:19, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 August 2018
The last sentence under section 3.7

" Dendroclimatology is the analysis of tree ring growth patterns to determine past climate variations.[102] Wide and thick rings indicate a fertile, well-watered growing period, while thin, narrow rings indicate a period of lower rainfall and less-than-ideal growing conditions. "

seems out of place. There is nothing wrong with the sentence itself, but it does seem disconnected from the rest of the section. I think it should be removed, since it does not add anything to the topic as is. Mwaidele (talk) 13:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ I kept the key concepts and just wrote some bridging text to "smoothify" it all. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:22, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

This article needs sections on history and "society and culture"
I think this article needs sections using the standard section headings "history" and "society and culture". I've said the same above but starting this new section here for clarity (as the above was meddled with the move discussion at global warming, which has now been rejected and closed). It will be a bit tricky though to not overlap with the content at "global warming" but I think it can be done with some carefuly thinking and editing. EMsmile (talk) 03:09, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * User:NewsAndEventsGuy: Can I go ahead and start with these new sections or will you object to it? (strangely, you and I seem to be more or less the only ones taking position and using the talk page at present.) EMsmile (talk) 12:00, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have now added a section on history with a link to the relevant sub-article. I tried to strike a balance between giving some information but not going into too much detail. EMsmile (talk) 02:14, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have now added a new section on society & culture. Again, my main is to just mention the main terms (and sub-articles) to make sure people know where to look for more. I have tried to make it clear that this is about the human-induced climate change. If there are any sub-articles or references that relate to society & culture for the non-human induced climate change then please add it. I can't think of any because society & culture does not really apply in the same way to those climate changes of the distant past (or where they do, it is provided under "history"). EMsmile (talk) 13:28, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

I just removed a new block Society and Culture and am reposting the text here. I'm not sure what I was thinking or if I just missed this early this summer. I suppose I could look in the archives, but in the big picture, we talked (in many threads) about the scope of this article vs Global warming and the long standing consensus (before I got here in 2011) was not changed. So I don't think this extensive treatment of society and culture is really relevant here, though it is certainly relevant and largely already covered at the other article. Anyway, here is the text I removed

Since this article pertains equally well to episodes of true global cooling, or ancient times of global warming, both now and in the distant past and in the distant future, this emphasis on contemporary human perspectives doesn't seem to be solidly wihtin the article's scope. New editors here Before commenting please review the extensive discussions about the scope of this article Climate change versus the scope of Global warming. For G's sake please don't reopen that unless you have a new line of reasonoing we haven't already beaten to death. Thanks. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:41, 19 September 2018 (UTC) NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:41, 19 September 2018 (UTC)


 * This text block has been in this place for quite a few months now (since June) and nobody had a problem with it so far (or everyone was napping?). So I think it's a pity that you removed it. Like we established in the earlier communications, this article deals with BOTH, the long-term and the current climate change. Therefore, a section on Society and Culture dealing with BOTH is justified in my opinion (only that there was no "society and culture" when some of the long-ago climate changes took place). I think it's important to leave the text block in the article because it's a fact that many people will come to climate change and expect to see information about the current climate change, therefore we need to give them that information as well, which then points them to the right sub-articles. - What's the harm in leaving the "society and culture" section (which is a standard heading), here? If you want to reword it and make it clearer how it relates to BOTH topics of the article then fine. EMsmile (talk) 01:32, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * (A) WP:CONTENTAGE is irrelevant
 * (B) Please find that earlier conversation in the archives and post a diff so we don't have to repeat it
 * (C) You're repeating your abundant prior arguments in which you seem to claim people will come here who are unable or unwilling to find their way to Global warming despite the WP:Hatnote. A few have had to ask directions and then were good to go.  I've been here since 2011.  You're the only person who has made the claim that some people can't or won't figure it out.  My worry is once we open the dcor to writing about human perceptions of the issue we cover at global warming here in the generic article climate change, then someone will think the line should be drawn just a little further over, and more of the other article's content will be echoed here.  And then more.  And then more.  And then you will have achieved indirectly what you failed to do head-on, when your proposed rename of the article 'global warming' did not win consensus.NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:46, 20 September 2018 (UTC)


 * About me being the only one to keep this article broad (encompassing both, old and current), I could equally argue that you are the only one who has a problem with the section "society and culture" that I had added some months ago. So that's not a good argument. (I find it surprising that so few people write on this talk page, and that you are pretty much dominating everything as a result of it as you've been around for longer and are more knowledgeable on the topic than I am.) What is the problem with having a short section on "society and culture" (a standard heading)? Why do you insist that it needs to be gone? You say you are worried that it will start a slippery slope. Well it is up to us to ensure that it won't but simply serves as a pointer for people into the direction where they can find out more. I made it clear that the short summary content that I had added relates to the human-induced part. In all the previous discussions we had established that this article is about BOTH, the human induced part and also the non human induced part. So therefore, I think we have an obligation to include content about human perceptions here. - As an aside, I am pretty sure that about 5 or at the latest 10 years from now, we will finally change this all around so that "climate change" is the article that deals with the human induced part, and the pre-human stuff will get a different name (no need to discuss this further here, time will tell). - Anyway, I am not going to pursue this any further if nobody else appears on this talk page to give us a third point of view. EMsmile (talk) 11:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * That's not factually accurate, but since you've said, I am not going to pursue this any further if nobody else appears on this talk page to give us a third point of view belaboring the editor behavior part of the discussion probably serves no purpose, so I'll refrain. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:29, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Please reduce the frequency of archiving
I've said this before but I'll say it again as I'm still not happy with the high frequency of archiving of the talk page. Could you change it to make it every 6 months only? The way it is at present, new people will come to this page and see it empty. They might overlook the little archive numbers at the top (like I did initially). I think it's useful for new editors to see what's been discussed especially if some processes are still open and ongoing, i.e. not yet fully resolved. What's the advantage of archiving so often like it currently is set up to so? EMsmile (talk) 02:31, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Not sure if it works, but set minimum threads/sections to four. prokaryotes (talk) 02:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I un-archived (i.e. restored) two threads  NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 09:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * This. Why are there only 4 topics on such a heavy subject? Feels like nobody uses wikipedia.--Eheran (talk) 18:01, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Update the politics, scientific discussion, and public opinion subcategory
What are some notable controversies that have been discussed? The subsection also fails to mention certain accords and agreements between countries that heavily impact the world's response to climate change. Lnatry (talk) 21:41, 19 September 2018 (UTC)


 * You'll find that in the Society and culture section of the global warming article, and in the articles that are linked from there. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:34, 20 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Lnatry and User:Ian (Wiki Ed) Isn't this again a perfect example of what I have been saying just today (above)? People come to this page and are expecting to find things on human-induced climate change as well. That's exactly why I have proposed to have a section on "society and culture", which would make a couple of brief statements and then link to the global warming article. Please scroll up to see the discussion and state your opinion there. Thanks. EMsmile (talk) 14:54, 20 September 2018 (UTC)


 * The problem really stems from the decision to split "global warming" and "climate change" the way it was split. At the time, it was a reasonable solution, and if memory serves me, consistent with policy as it existed at the time. While that split was maintained between the two top-level articles, a whole lot of daughter articles have been created that use "climate change" as a synonym. If you really want to dig into the history, you should ask.
 * I don't think this article needs a section like that - given the way that usage has evolved, I think this article might need a new title, and this title should redirect to global warming. (Also, if I'm discussing editorial decisions here, I really should make it clear that as an editor, I've been active in this topic in the past.) Guettarda/Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:37, 20 September 2018 (UTC)


 * My wife is a university professor. For each of her classes, she has polished and honed the syllabus and yet each semester some students repeatedly ask questions answered by the syallabus.  That's not evidence that her syllabi suck, that's just students being casual and wanting the answer handed to them.  On these articles each year it seems some class gets interested, and students make a single post.  Then, no matter how much help they get in the replies, often they are never heard from again.    if you invest some sweat here, you can learn a lot.  If you hit a wall, leave a note on my talk page and I'll make suggestions as I'm able - but I only help those who make an effort to help themselves. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:05, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's true. But if I was a professor and if each year the class asked exactly the same question then I would think hard how I might have to alter my syllabus to make it clearer. I don't mind them asking all sorts of questions but it should be different questions each time, not the same one. Anyway, I am with Guettarda on this one when he says "I think this article might need a new title, and this title should redirect to global warming". That's exactly what I had proposed but which got rejected this time around. I am 99% sure it will happen eventually but might still take a few years to get that consensus. In the meantime, whatever little things we can do to help people along, we should do. Yes, we have the hatnote but that's not enough. Also within the article we should use every opportunity to provide readers with the correct links to sub-articles. And I agree with Guettarda that the daughter articles are a complete mess in terms of naming. Most of them use "climate change" in their title, like climate change adaptation when based on the current logic it ought to be "global warming adaptation". Therefore, we either spend some weeks sorting out the titles of the daughter articles, or we change the title of the mother article! As this won't happen in the near future (my proposal was knocked back), I would support small little doable things that will avoid confusion, like having a section on "society and culture", however small that may be. - Is there any chance we could agree on a very short section on "society and culture"? If you think my section was too long, any chance we could agree on a shorter one or are you dead set against saying anything about this topic at all here, and not providing any links? EMsmile (talk) 08:27, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
 * There is no fatal defect here in terms of navigation. Hatnote points to Global warming. First section, Terminology, points to Global warming.  Existing section "History" points to the IPCC.   See also section points to Climate change in popular culture.  So there really isn't a strong case to be made based on navigation problems alone.
 * Once again, its just the two of us. Yes, Ian told us that he just likes something different, without providing a reason.  Done properly, uninvolved eds who close RFCs just ignore those sorts of comments (see WP:NOTVOTE).  I thought you earlier said you were going to get off the merry go around if its just the two of us?
 * Earlier this year, when you wanted to change the scope/title of the two main articles (which I support generally), I advised at your talk page to make a short succinct precise move proposal but you launched a formal discussion anyway for brainstorming purposes. The ensuing discussion was messy and took loads of time, and failed to win a consensus to change anything.  So here were are again, trying to add text in a small way when the big picture failed.  Feels kinda tendentious but if you can convince others who participated in the earlier move debate to add something here like your talking about I can live with it.  If its just us (again) I'm opposed for the reasons stated above.  NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:20, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
 * At the time, I didn't know how to write that "short succinct precise move proposal" that you asked me to do - given that this is not my area of expertise but I am just a member of the interested public. I thought the brainstorming discussion was alright (but yes, it took up a fair bit of time). I think that you might be in a much better position than me to write this "short succinct precise move proposal" (if you support it generally)) since you have been involved in these articles longer than me and perhaps even have a professional background in it. I'd love to clean up the whole structure of mother article and sub-articles but this would require a huge chunk of time and several dedicated people who agree on this and work hand in hand. Maybe the topic for an edit-a-thon one day. EMsmile (talk) 03:59, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

"weather cycle" redirects to climate change instead of the water cycle
As per the header, I personally think anyone who types in weather cycle would be intending to look up the water cycle and not climate change121.45.204.69 (talk) 22:05, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Could be water cycle. Could also mean just weather or just climate. I think looking at it perhaps climate oscillation might be best. Dmcq (talk) 22:14, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 November 2018
Under physical evidence and effects would like to add a new section "Human Disease Vectors" as below

Human Disease Vectors Climate change has already led to the alteration in geographical distribution of various human disease vectors.[1][2] Both migration to cooler climates and higher elevations has been observed.[2] It has been suggested that these migration events could in some cases lead to greater disease transmission.[2][3] However, extinction events may also be expected which could possibly decrease the number of vectors in a given area.[2]

Changes in temperature, humidity, and precipitation, can change the host’s and pathogen’s developmental cycle, population densities, and transmission rates.[4] Temperature alone can have an effect on vector biting rates, reproductive cycles, and survival rates.[3] It has been suggested that an increase in global temperature may lessen the potential for seasonally lower temperatures which cyclically decrease vector populations.[1] Humidity and rainfall also have an effect on vector population dynamics.[1][3] Temperature is also known to affect the survival of the pathogens carried by vectors.[3]

There is significant variability in how various vector borne diseases are impacted by climate change.[3] Climate change has had a mixed effect on Malaria in Africa.[3] Drought in some areas has led to decreased malaria transmission risk, whilst other areas have become more suitable to transmission through increased rainfall.[2][3] Many confounding variables also make the association between climate change and malaria transmission in Africa difficult to assess.[3] Improved infrastructure and socioeconomic factors, along with basic healthcare and preventive care, can decrease the risk of transmission and mortality.[4][3] However, the lack of effective healthcare interventions and other protective factors make Dengue fever more prone to the effects of climate change than malaria.[3] Similarly to malaria, an increase in precipitation and temperature has led to a higher population density of the mosquitoes responsible for Dengue fever and an increase in transmission rates.[4] But, in contrast with malaria, urbanization appears to be positively associated with transmission of the virus.[3] It has therefore been suggested that efforts to control the spread of Dengue in the wake of climate change may be less effective than those directed towards malaria.[3]

Changes in human and animal migration patterns due to climate change have caused an increased in prevalence of vector borne diseases.[2][3] Drought and higher temperatures have led to human migration to water sources, where fly vectors for Leishmaniasis preside.[2] Thus, behavioral alterations due to climate change can cause an increase in prevalence of vector borne diseases. Climate change can also affect migration patterns of vectors, such as those that carry hemorrhagic fever viruses.[2] The increase in temperatures at higher altitudes have allowed invasion of new species in the area, which can carry vector borne diseases.[1] These species increase their population density at higher altitudes and decrease diversity in the area, causing a higher incidence of vector borne diseases in places not prone to these diseases.[2]

References Sutherst, Robert W. (2004-1). "Global Change and Human Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 17 (1): 136–173. doi:10.1128/CMR.17.1.136-173.2004. ISSN 0893-8512. PMID 14726459. Check date values in: DavidLang1973 (talk) 14:39, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Mills, James N.; Gage, Kenneth L.; Khan, Ali S. (2010-11). "Potential Influence of Climate Change on Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases: A Review and Proposed Research Plan". Environmental Health Perspectives. 118 (11): 1507–1514. doi:10.1289/ehp.0901389. ISSN 0091-6765. PMC 2974686. PMID 20576580. Check date values in: |date= (help)

Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid; Manga, Lucien; Bagayoko, Magaran; Sommerfeld, Johannes (2015-04-05). "Climate change and vector-borne diseases: what are the implications for public health research and policy?". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370 (1665). doi:10.1098/rstb.2013.0552. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 4342958. PMID 25688013.

Reiter, Paul (2001). "Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease" (PDF). Environmental Health Perspectives. 109: 141–161. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidLang1973 (talk • contribs) 14:42, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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The better place to think about adding this subtopic is Global warming or Effects of global warming or Effects_of_global_warming_on_human_health, for the reason that this page is not tied to the current (human) climate change, and isn't even tied to warming. There are ample discussions of this article's scope int eh talk page archives NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:54, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

scientific method
Housekeeping, This was tacked onto a stale thread about suggested article improvements, so I moved this new stuff to the bottom and gave it a specific heading, per the TPG NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:26, 5 December 2018 (UTC) I'd like to point out that references to climate change and global warming fail to be represented in the article scientific method. IMO for reason, as changes in climate or temperature are not independently verifiable. Despite those who make claims that it is a "settled" science, there remain detractors. Good science allows for such. 2600:6C48:7006:200:B056:6066:1296:EF0B (talk) 03:51, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * This is not a WP:FORUM. It is a talk page to discuss improvements to the article. You need WP:Reliable sources and to say what changes to put in the article because of those reliable sources. Dmcq (talk) 15:11, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Scientific prediction of danger etc.
I came to the page simply looking for an answer to the question "how bad is it going to be?" and there isn't any section of the article that is clearly about that topic. Can we change that? I'm sure we can find plenty of citations! BrianPansky (talk) 20:04, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * See Global warming and Effects of global warming and Sea level rise but also see Climate change mitigation, and of course all their many sub articles NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:42, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Climate Change vs. Global Warming
Here it is stated that Climate Change and Global Warming are interchangeable terms. I would strongly disagree and would bring Wiki's own definition of Global Warming as proof. "Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming." Climate Change is a general term that can encompass anything from Global Warming to an Ice Age to a Polar Reversal. The terms can not be interchangeable if one is an aspect of the other! The difference is obvious and built right into the words. Warming (spacific), Change (general). Source[2] is not a source but a clarification of terms used, in which the term Global Warming isn't even used, nor can the word be found anywhere in this source. This is being used as a source of implication. Very suspect! Source[3] from NASA, actually makes the distinction between the two terms and does not use them interchangeably and notes each definition. Source[4] is a personal paper that also makes the distinction. "So “global warming,” “weather weirding,” “the climatecrisis,” “global heating,” and “climate disruption” have all been used as alternative, more vivid, descriptions of the idea of anthropogenic climate change." Simply what he is saying here is that global warming is a much more descriptive word. But he is not endorsing the interchangeability of the two words. In fact, no where did I read him ever endorsing this, or suggesting that they can be.

I suggest someone make a change that Climate Change can encompass Global Warming but is not interchangeable with Global Warming. 204.96.191.130 (talk) 20:59, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Good point. The terms are commonly used interchangeably in the current context, but differ... a published expert blogs about it at . . .  dave souza, talk 22:18, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Other terms that could be discussed in this context are "climate crisis", which is increasingly used in the debate, and "climate overheating". All terms are certainly very related. What might be important to consider here is also: By whom are they used and why? "Change" indicates that things do change over time, which is a very neutral term, but maybe too neutral, as it might also indicate that things have always changed and that it is normal that they do so. Therefore, this term might just be the results of attempting a compromise with the climate-denial camp, who could still use the term to indicate that "things" always change and that this is natural, which is certainly is not. And this camp seems to have been quite successful over time. "Warming" shows a direction: it is not about "cooling". This is already a much better term to show where the journey goes, but "overheating (of the climate system of our planet)" might be even more realistic term, as it is not just about warming, as if we were freezing and turning on the heating, but that a "hothouse Earth" scenario, which will make our planet uninhabitable within less than 500 years, is not unrealistic, and even likely if we do not radically shift climate policy. As "warming" has a positive connotation for a very negative phenomenon, it might not be a good term either, unlike "overheating", which says what it is. Similarly negatively connotated, the term "crisis" also shows what it actually is: That we are about to fail to solve the problem. But this is a term that fits better to political sciences than physics. What I suggest is that we could add a paragraph where we discuss these related terms and also show why they might often be used. Flugscham (talk) 10:18, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

(A) The primary location where this is discussed, in many threads over the years and throughout the archives, is at Talk:Global warming. I do not believe that article has reached a stable title and description of this issue, and I base this on two things. First, I have long advocated changing the name of Global warming but without consensus. Second, I'm not alone. Over the years there has been an intermittent stream of Don Quixotes like myself trying to do the same thing. No doubt there will be another attempt. In any case, when we have a really strong consensus how we handle these terms at that article, then we will more easily tweak this one accordingly.
 * On that note, yes, there was recently an overhaul to the first paragraph. Dave, I am not convinced that your efforts there have a strong consensus.  Rather its my sense that folks are just exhausted and/or distracted.  Inattention is not the equivalent of strong support.  I know I'm weary of trying to change things there.

(B) your long paragraph is almost all assertion from your own head. We can't act on that. In addition, you might want to focus on Global warming controversy or Climate change denial or Public opinion on climate change etc NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:32, 3 February 2019 (UTC) that's almost all WP:FORUM and (so far) your own opinion.
 * It is a discussion, right? ;-) I am not arguing that we should move the articles, as these are established terms. I am just arguing that there is a lot of debates out there and terms are changing. Flugscham (talk) 12:39, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * A WP:FORUM occurs when editors opine from their own heads
 * A discussion occurs when editors contemplate neutral reporting of topics based on citations to WP:Reliable sources
 * Discussions are welcome. Forumish opinions, not so much NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:51, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * For such discussions, Talk:Global warming provides a resource which can be updated or extended as a good basis for further development. The root problem is that for convenience of article coverage we've made a split based on common lay usage of GW as a synonym for CC in the post-1900 context, rather than the more specific scientific usage. Retitling GW would be an option, keeping this article as the main more general topic. Perhaps move the current content of GW to anthropogenic global warming, and confine global warming to warming (of any period)? . . . dave souza, talk 20:42, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Obviously what's here now is seriously broken (It's the IPCC, not the IPGW). The term climate change replaced global warming back in the Bush administration! Here's my thought on a fix- Rename this page to "Climate Forcing Mechanisms". Rename the Global Warming article to be "Climate Change", replacing this page. Have a new "Global Warming" article that talks about climate change research prior to 2004 and how the name change happened. Opposition? Anyone interested in taking this on with me?--Efbrazil (talk) 18:23, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
 * See Global warming, and note that both terms go back to the 1950s, Broecker and the 1979 Charney Report used GW for rising surface temperatures, while describing the wider effects of increased CO2 as climate change. More in the sources cited. . . dave souza, talk 01:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Can we have the article on climate change be what everybody expects it to be about?
Everyone landing on this page expects the "climate change" article to be about modern climate change predominantly resulting from greenhouse gas emissions. That page has already been written and is very well done- its the current global warming article, which covers both global warming and its effects. The scope of this page is stuck somewhere in 2000, back when "climate change" meant the same thing as "changes to earth's climate over time".

NASA and the EPA are very clear that climate change means global warming plus its effects. . This change apparently dates to the George W Bush administration.

I think the wikipedia confusion has been caused by the glossary entry in the fifth assessment report by the IPCC. It confusingly fails to say whether the term "climate change" is limited to modern times and it includes non-human caused sources of changes to the climate, although it says the UNFCC limits the scope to human-caused changes to the climate. I believe this is because they were trying to say their mission includes a full understanding of why the climate is changing, including understanding why it has changed in the past.

However, actual use of the term "climate change" by the IPCC in its own report clearly scopes it to modern climate changes and then it clearly states those changes are predominantly driven by global warming. Just look at their table of contents, with sections like "measures for mitigating climate change", or read the report introduction: "The SYR highlights that we have the means to limit climate change and its risks, with many solutions that allow for continued economic and human development." It would simply be too wordy to always be saying "climate change in modern times which is being predominantly caused by global warming" so they just say "climate change" everywhere. See the IPCC 2014 Assessment Report 5 for more info.

On the surface, what seems to make sense to me....
 * Rename the existing Climate Change page to "Climate Forcing Mechanisms". I think that's basically what this page is mostly covering.
 * Rename the Global Warming article to be "Climate Change", replacing this page.
 * To back fill the "global warming" term, maybe add a new disambiguation page. If people are interested in climate change, point them towards that page (the page that was previously global warming). If people are more narrowly interested causes of planetary temperature change, we should create a new article that narrowly covers that issue. That content already exists on the current global warming page as a section- we could just copy that out and then condense that section in the new climate change article.

Thoughts? Is there history here I need to read up on? I'd love some help with this if possible- I've made lots of high level edits, but never pulled off a big switcharoo like this.--Efbrazil (talk) 23:22, 9 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Hasn't everybody heard of ice ages? Climate change predates AGW, and the IPCC covers both topics. . . dave souza, talk 01:41, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Can't see the point of the change. Global warming and climate change are reasonable names for the topics. This is an encyclopaedia not an instant answer page for what people might have thought of. There's only space for one topic name per article, they can read the line just after it which directs them elsewhere if the name can mean a couple of different things. The world is not going to implode because someone can't stand a couple of seconds wait. Dmcq (talk) 12:54, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I might be the lone multi year regular here who favors some restructuring, and I do think its worth talking about. On the other hand, it will take a carefully thought out proposal, and careful presentation, and a broad RFC to break gridlock.   So I appreciate that you're asking the questions .  It will not be a fast or easy lift and I don't have the enormous amounts of time to work on it that I would like. Maybe that will change someday.  NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:10, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * As a relative newcomer to the topic, I think restructuring could work on the basis of sources including those at Talk:Global warming – and please add any further relevant sources to that resource for discussion! The SR15 glossary gives useful definitions of both, that would suggest confining "global warming" to the increase in mean temperature over 30 year periods, so the question is then where to put climate changes relating specifically to AGW. . . dave souza, talk 17:21, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Regarding the IPCC glossary, you can see my thoughts on that up above. Basically, use of "climate change" in IPCC literature and their glossary definition for the word are not in agreement with each other. I'll look to update Talk:Global warming to clarify that issue and to and create a WP:RFC on the renaming. You can see the bones of my proposal up above. Thoughts on the proposed restructuring itself?--Efbrazil (talk) 21:34, 11 February 2019 (UTC)